January 10, 2018

9th Grade Students Gain the Attention of Scientists After Their Experiment Reveals a Dark Truth About WiFi

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We have long encouraged students to find ways to connect with their school work, making it interesting and personal, holding their attention longer and allowing them to see more success.

This was the
case at a school in northern Jutland, where a group of 9th-grade students recently
embarked on a biology experiment inspired by their own personal experiences with
concentrating. Lea Nielsen, one of the students, explained:
“We all think we have experienced difficulty concentrating in school, if we had
slept with the phone next to our head, and sometimes also experienced having difficulty
sleeping.”

Curious about
the shared experience, the group of girls designed an experimentto investigate the impact
of wi-fi radiation on living cells. Specifically, they chose to use cress seeds.
Taking 400 seeds, they separated them out across 12 different trays. Six of the
trays were placed in each of 2 rooms. Both rooms were kept at the same temperature,
and both sets of trays were given the same amount of water and access to sunlight
throughout the experiment.

The one difference
between the two rooms, creating the basis for their experiment, is that the trays
in one room were placed next to two Wi-Fi routers. The Wi-Fi routers broadcast the
same type of radiation that can be observed coming from our cellphones, allowing
the students to recreate the impact of sleeping with your phone on your bedside
table, next to your head.

The results?
After 12 days it was shocking to see the difference between the two sets of trays.
While the cress seeds in the first room were growing well, appearing healthy and
flourishing in their environment, the same could not be said in the second room.
The seeds that were placed next to the router showed no real growth at all. Some
of the seeds could even be observed showing signs of mutation or dying off entirely.

The experiment
was enough to open the students’ eyes about their cellphone use and whether or not
it is safe to bring their phones to bed at night. “It is truly frightening that
there is so much affect, so we were very shocked by the result,” Nielsen stated.
“None of us sleep with the mobile next to the bed anymore. Either the phone is
put far away, or it is put in another room. And the computer is always off.”

Not only was
the experiment received well by the girls’ school, but since the word got out they
have started to receive international attention as biologists and radiation experts
acknowledge the importance of their discovery.

One expert
that has shown a great deal of interest in the experiment, even going as far as
planning his own follow-up experiments, is Olle
Johansson, a professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He will
begin his assessment into the girls’ findings by repeating the experiment with his
research colleague Professor Marie-Claire Cammaert at the Universite libre de Bruxelles.

Johansson
was highly impressed by the girls’ efforts. He praised them, saying: “The girls
stayed within the scope of their knowledge, skilfully implemented and developed
a very elegant experiment. The wealth of detail and accuracy is exemplary, choosing
cress was very intelligent and I could go on.”

What’s next
for the girls? Johansson made it clear that he wouldn’t hesitate to work with these
talented, intelligent students moving forward: “I sincerely hope that they spend
their future professional life in researching because I definitely think they have
a natural aptitude for it. Personally, I would love to see these people in my team!”